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Paula's Choice vs Sesderma

Paula's Choice is an American skincare brand founded in 1995 and owned by Unilever since 2021.

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Sesderma is a Spanish skincare brand founded in 1989 and owned by Grupo Sesderma since 2026.

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This page compares some of the most popular Paula's Choice and Sesderma products; for every product of both brands, with a fit score for your own skin, use the Lovi app.

Questions and answers

Paula's Choice or Sesderma: which is better?

Paula's Choice is generally better for your skincare routine because the products on this page have an average Lovi fit of high across multiple skin types, unlike Sesderma which only features one product here. Additionally, Paula's Choice offers fragrance-free formulations, whereas the Sesderma product on this page contains fragrance.

What is the difference between Paula's Choice and Sesderma?

Paula's Choice offers a much wider range of fragrance-free products on this page compared to Sesderma, which includes fragrance in its Azelac RU Serum. Paula's Choice features key ingredients like niacinamide, which helps reduce pigmentation, and retinol, which may stimulate collagen accumulation.

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Which is more affordable, Paula's Choice or Sesderma?

Reviewers mostly mention high price as an issue for the products on this page by Paula's Choice.

Which brand has been around longer, Paula's Choice or Sesderma?

Sesderma has been around longer, having been founded in Spain in 1989, whereas Paula's Choice was founded in the United States in 1995.

Do products from Paula's Choice contain fragrance compared to Sesderma's Azelac RU Serum?

Paula's Choice offers fragrance-free options as every product on this page lists no fragrance in its ingredients, whereas Sesderma's Azelac RU Serum includes fragrance.

What are the main skin types that Paula's Choice fits best according to its routines?

Paula's Choice fits oily skin, combination skin, and acne-prone skin best according to its brand-focused routines.

Research behind their key ingredients

Behind this comparison

Lovi compares products by their fit scores, calculated from the full ingredient list with brand-independent rules our dermatologists and cosmetic chemists build and review, and personalizes every pick with AI trained on the real results of millions of users. Lovi trains its fit score models on a proprietary dataset built from more than 10,000 expert-labeled products and more than 100,000 simulated examples, following an internally consistent methodology presented at Cosmoprof, AMWC, and Skin of Color Update.

How does it fit your skin?

Scan your face, then any product: Lovi shows how well it fits you and what fits even better.